Andrej Longo's book has been titled Ten Significant Numbers (Volumes, 2007). It contains the stories of the same number that represent the violent day to day of Naples, taking as a narrative thread the Ten Commandments.

We have to live honestly as God has commanded us, and to do so he created a priority order from 1 to 10. In other words, we had the recipe for appropriating the perfect moral law to achieve eternal peace in heaven.

We believe that over time the Holy Law does not affect us, but, even if they are droplets, we continue to drink from the same source. Although we wanted to flee, from 1 to 10 or in any way, we live under a hierarchical structure. Therefore, the dogma of God’s priority over all the things that Catholicism has imposed on us can be said to have been acquiring different shapes and images. Such a clear representation is found in the famous Sicilian mafia. The

image of God has been replaced by the Mafia, just as the stories set out in the dark and drowning corners of Naples. Not far from the principles of Catholicism, the list of rules that La Cosa Nostra has established, obeying Capo, being honored at work, the importance of the family and succession, the goods, the silence of the woman, has become the sacred law to survive in Naples. As we delve into the book, we realize that, as God works as the engine of everything, behind every event lies the mafia: “…and if you don’t want to meet the standards, there’s no question that you’ll get a bullet in your head. Because that’s how things work here” (p. 8). In these ten crude stories that

Josu Zabaleta has published, we can think that Longo, like so many others have done before, has wanted to frustrate the symbolism of the divine. Renouncing a tradition that is still based today on Judeo-Christian culture, he has resorted to the stream of dirty realism that misery is only human, using the model of the hardest side of Naples. After all, “someone had to do it, we could not go on like this forever” (p. 43).As

in most storybooks, in this one we also find everything. There are others that become heavy, that leave cold, end open and vice versa, and that deserve to be read two or more times. Borobilduz, we could include Longoiena in the list of books read.